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A nationwide campaign, "Each One Reach One", takes place this week to encourage people with a learning disability to become involved…

A nationwide campaign, "Each One Reach One", takes place this week to encourage people with a learning disability to become involved in the Special Olympics. Sponsor Telecom Eireann is making a freephone hotline 1800 827827 available during the week. In addition a mobile information unit will be travelling throughout the country providing information on ways that new athletes, their families and volunteers can become involved in the programme.

A charity recital by the Prism Ensemble will take place in the Bank of Ireland Arts Centre, Foster Place, Dublin 2 tomorrow at 8 p.m. with proceeds to the Irish Diabetic Association. The programme will include works by Brahms, Rossini and Schubert. Tickets at £5 are available from the association (01) 8363022 or at the door.

Women For Sobriety (WFS) will hold a public meeting next Friday in St Patrick's Hospital, James's Street, Dublin 8 at 8 p.m. which will be addressed by Dr Matt Murphy, director of the hospital's alcoholism unit. Further information from Frances Nugent (046) 21279.

The inaugural meeting of the Irish Analytical Psychology Association (IAPA) takes place next Saturday in the Milltown Institute, Sandford Road, Dublin from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Dr Renos Papadopoulos of the University of Essex, will give a talk on "The Paradox of Personal Myth: Jung's Relevlance Today". Tel: (01) 2833724.

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The Children in Crossfire charity is appealing for funds this week as Alan Cummings makes his way from Malen Head to Mizen Head on four-foot-high stilts. Volunteers are also needed along the route: the charity can be contacted in Derry at (01504) 269898.